Last week she used the song “Boll Weevil” to review patterns of 16th notes and to introduce the accent mark. Weber began by having the students sit up straight and warm up their voices. (Copland is our Composer for April and May.) While she finished testing the last few students who still needed to take their third level test, she had the rest color a picture of Aaron Copland, and finished up the class by having them listen to “ Fanfare for the Common Man“. Weber put a few measures on the board so that she could be sure they were all looking at the correct notes. Finally, they played the piece, stopping to practice the difficult passages. Step two was to slowly read the note names in rhythm. ![]() They are getting the idea of using “1 and” for eighth notes. In each case she began by having the students read the counts aloud. Weber had the students review “Starlight” (G and E), “Lucy Locket” (G, A and E), and “Kagome” (B,A, G and E), all from the Recorder Resources kit from MusicPlay. Your left thumb will cover the bottom hole, the index, middle and ring fingers of your left hand will cover the top three holes and the index, middle, ring and baby fingers of your right hand will cover the bottom four.In third grade Ms.
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